SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Stanford Prison Experiment, Participatory Action Research, Gie
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Research: a systematic approach to gathering data using an agreed upon set of methods. Both functionalist and conflict perspectives are considered to be macrosociological theories and therefore ask (cid:862)la(cid:396)ge (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s(cid:863) Symbolic interactionism is a microsociological perspective interested in face to face encounters and he meanings that people use to facilitate social life. Feminist researchers are interested in issues pertaining to gender and inequality. Queer theorists are interested in troubling take(cid:374) fo(cid:396) g(cid:396)a(cid:374)ted (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)epts su(cid:272)h as the te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:862)(cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373)al(cid:863). 2 main approaches to social research: quantitative: refers to numerical data, qualitative: refers to non-numerical date. Quantitative approaches: converting aspects of social life into numbers and determining whether a significant relationship exists between sets of numbers. Qualitative approaches: do not involve the conversion of social life to numerical form; rather focus on rich detail, more in depth; more expensive, use interviewing as main technique for data collection. 2 systems of reasoning: inductive logic (data to theory) and deductive logic (theory to data)
